Rainer Werner Fassbinder Quotes
Everyone must decide for himself whether it is better to have a brief but more intensely felt existence or to live a long and ordinary life.Rainer Werner Fassbinder
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The six people who had the biggest impact on my life were all women. Had I been sexist, my life would have been far less fulfilling.
Zig Ziglar -
I used to be a drummer in a band, and I really loved playing the drums, so I look forward to the right opportunity to do that at some point. Maybe even on TV. Every single live performance I'm doing on TV, I want it to be different and unique.
Anton Zaslavski -
I wouldn't trivialize my existence into a hashtag.
Halsey -
Sometimes things in life take a few years to digest, and they find their way into the work later on. Sometimes I'm writing about things from eight years ago-they just took a long time to distill and come out in the appropriate way.
Beck -
Even when I get to the point where I am acting and performing, where I want to be with my career, I'm never going to think of anyone as lower than me. Everyone's the celebrity of their own life, you know?
Ireland Baldwin -
The most important of all rights is the right to life, and I cannot foresee a day when domesticated animals will be granted that right in law.
J. M. Coetzee
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I've worked in television all my life, but really I've always wanted to work in the movies.
E. L. James -
The more people pointed at me in scorn the more stubborn I got and when they began calling me the Bad Girl of West Seattle High, I tried to live up to it.
Frances Farmer -
If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession.
Uta Hagen -
The only thing I'd ever wanted in my life was to be a major-league ballplayer, but I had to admit to myself that I wasn't good enough. It broke my heart.
Earl Weaver -
I decide immediately if I like a person and if I do, then I'm myself, and if I don't, then I give nothing.
P. J. Harvey -
I just don't consider myself to be, you know, an American actor. I don't want that life.
Damian Lewis
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To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.
Saint Teresa of Avila -
As a child I experienced firsthand the severe effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially upon women and children. My parents taught me the importance of education and that it was a key to improving an individual's life.
Naveen Jain -
Only the winners decide what were war crimes.
Garry Wills -
I had learned of Gertrude Stein's bon mot that medicine opened all doors. This prompted me, in different moods, to view my future life as literary psychiatrist, globe-trotting tropical disease specialist, or academic internist.
Harold E. Varmus -
Back in 1968, when I was 30, my entire life blew up. I had a life plan, and it collapsed for no rational reason.
Gail Sheehy -
I don't decide my politics based on the flavour of the month.
Nandan Nilekani
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I am sorry to be leaving the post of secretary of state for Scotland.
Des Browne -
I want to see Toby Maguire fight Christian Bale.
Artie Lange -
All darkness vanished, when I saw the Lamp within my heart.
Kabir -
I always want to approach records from where it feels very graspable. You know what the song's about, but it's presented to you in a way that's like, 'I never heard something like this before,' but it doesn't push you away.
Jon Bellion -
We 'have all we want' is a terrible saying when 'all' does not include God. We find God an interruption. As St. Augustine says somewhere, 'God wants to give us something, but cannot, because our hands are full - there's nowhere for Him to put it.'
C. S. Lewis -
Everyone must decide for himself whether it is better to have a brief but more intensely felt existence or to live a long and ordinary life.
Rainer Werner Fassbinder